Tuesdays with Writers
December 4th, 7pm
South Mill
48th and Prescott, Lincoln
the Mid-Winter Reading
you all can read tonite! just send a note to Deborah asking to be put on the list!
dmcginn@inebraska.com
TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
November 6th, 7pm
at the South Mill
48th & Prescott, Lincoln:
Prose reading, with Jen Davis-Korn, Karla Decker, and Deborah McGinn
Jen Davis-Korn
Jennifer was first set free to write whatever she wanted by her third grade teacher Mrs. Kruse. Ever since then, she's been lucky enough to land a string of great teachers, like Deborah McGinn, and mentors, like Rex Walton, to encourage and coax her writing whims into their present fiction state. She is fortunate to have earned the trust of the good people of Tuesdays With Writers where she has made a nice and comfortable writing home. Now she promises to bring you danger, excitement, and thrills with a sampling from her collection of chapters from a long work titled "Parks and Recreation"
Poet DEBORAH T MCGINN
Deborah McGinn is an International Baccalaureate trained English teacher at Lincoln High School and educated at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She earned a BA in English/Reading in Secondary Education, and an MA in English with a Creative Writing thesis. She has published in The Iowa Review, South Dakota Review, English Journal, Plains Song Review, Plainsong, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Untidy Season, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Platte Valley Review UNK, and ARS Medica, a journal of medicine. She sponsored Scribe, the Lincoln High literary magazine for twenty-five years. Scribe won numerous NCTE Highest Superior Awards under her leadership. Retiring from Scribe allows her time to sponsor the school’s first Slam Poetry Team. In 2012 LHS placed third in the state championship called Louder Than a Bomb.
Karla Decker was born in Greeley, Colorado a million years ago. She has no memory of living in Omaha for about six months before the age of two though her picture appeared in the Omaha World Herald feeding a lollipop to her grandfather’s German Shepard. By age two she made her home in Wisconsin. She became enamored of Abstract Expressionism and majored in art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There she became enamored of the young writers on campus and married one of them and moved to Minneapolis and then back to Omaha. She divorced the writer and moved to Lincoln. Three gorgeous daughters and a passion for writing came out of this marriage. Her publishing history is skimpy. At Marilyn Dorf’s urging she entered the Bess Streeter Aldrich contest last year and won 2nd place. She was July in the first issue of the Nebraska Poets calendar. That’s about it.
for more info, email Deborah at : dmcginn@inebraska.com
November 6th, 7pm
at the South Mill
48th & Prescott, Lincoln:
Prose reading, with Jen Davis-Korn, Karla Decker, and Deborah McGinn
Jen Davis-Korn
Jennifer was first set free to write whatever she wanted by her third grade teacher Mrs. Kruse. Ever since then, she's been lucky enough to land a string of great teachers, like Deborah McGinn, and mentors, like Rex Walton, to encourage and coax her writing whims into their present fiction state. She is fortunate to have earned the trust of the good people of Tuesdays With Writers where she has made a nice and comfortable writing home. Now she promises to bring you danger, excitement, and thrills with a sampling from her collection of chapters from a long work titled "Parks and Recreation"
Poet DEBORAH T MCGINN
Deborah McGinn is an International Baccalaureate trained English teacher at Lincoln High School and educated at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She earned a BA in English/Reading in Secondary Education, and an MA in English with a Creative Writing thesis. She has published in The Iowa Review, South Dakota Review, English Journal, Plains Song Review, Plainsong, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Untidy Season, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Platte Valley Review UNK, and ARS Medica, a journal of medicine. She sponsored Scribe, the Lincoln High literary magazine for twenty-five years. Scribe won numerous NCTE Highest Superior Awards under her leadership. Retiring from Scribe allows her time to sponsor the school’s first Slam Poetry Team. In 2012 LHS placed third in the state championship called Louder Than a Bomb.
Karla Decker was born in Greeley, Colorado a million years ago. She has no memory of living in Omaha for about six months before the age of two though her picture appeared in the Omaha World Herald feeding a lollipop to her grandfather’s German Shepard. By age two she made her home in Wisconsin. She became enamored of Abstract Expressionism and majored in art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There she became enamored of the young writers on campus and married one of them and moved to Minneapolis and then back to Omaha. She divorced the writer and moved to Lincoln. Three gorgeous daughters and a passion for writing came out of this marriage. Her publishing history is skimpy. At Marilyn Dorf’s urging she entered the Bess Streeter Aldrich contest last year and won 2nd place. She was July in the first issue of the Nebraska Poets calendar. That’s about it.
TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
Tuesday, October 2nd, 7pm - Tuesdays With Writers presents:
Shoshana Sumrall Frerking and Marilyn Dorf
Marilyn Dorf grew up on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded in Boone County, Nebraska where, as only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Plainsongs, Northeast, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, Plains Song Review, Timber Creek Review, Echoes, Avocet, 10x3 plus, and Platte Valley Review, as well as the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Crazy Woman Creek, Nebraska Presence, and the forthcoming Untidy Seasons. She has received several prizes for her short fiction in the Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of five chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend, Windmills Walk the Night, Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds, I Know That An Owl Owns This Sky, and This Red Hill (Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.
When Shoshana Sumrall Frerking was five years old, a giant yellow lizard informed her he was going to gobble her up. In the morning, even knowing it had only been a nightmare, she was still terrified of being alone. When her mom finally asked what was wrong, Shoshana, embarrassed, explained about the bad dream. Her mom grabbed a broom. "Where is he right now?" she demanded. Together, they searched every room, and even looked outside in the farmyard. Coming back in, Shoshana suddenly pointed into a dark closet. "There he is!" Down crashed the broom, again and again, until the yellow lizard lay dead with his brains leaking out his ears. Mother and daughter cleaned up the mess and hauled the corpse out to the trash burner.
Shoshana's mother has always been her hero and inspiration to keep creating.
Shoshana grew up on a farm in western Nebraska, and now enjoys a career as a technical writer. Shoshana’s short fiction has been published in Deviant Minds, LAURUS Magazine, Plains Song Review,Fine Lines Journal, Paradigm, LITnIMAGE, and SNReview. A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Shoshana lives in Lincoln with her husband, Todd, oldest stepson, Drew, and their three cats, Misery, Granger, and Mac.
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Nov: Prose read with Jen Davis Korn, Karla Decker, and Deborah McGinn
Dec.: Holiday Group Read
Jan.: Becky Faber, Charlene Neely, JK Brown and…
Feb.: Dominique Garay and ...
March:The Lincoln High School Slam Poetry Team
April: Marge Saiser
Jan.: Becky Faber, Charlene Neely, JK Brown and…
Feb.: Dominique Garay and ...
March:The Lincoln High School Slam Poetry Team
April: Marge Saiser
May: Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Violence Blue Light Press, 2013 Readers from the anthology
June: Lucy Adkins and Becky Breed bring a new book to the South Mill --
July: 14th Birthday Party for Tuesdays
Tuesday, September 4th -- 7pm
at The South Mill
4736 Prescott
Lincoln.
Featured readers Laura Madeline Wiseman and Grace Bauer.
GRACE BAUER, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Nebraska by way of New Orleans, Montana, Massachussetts, and Virginia. She is the author of Retreats and Recognitions(Lost Horse Press, 2007), Beholding Eye (CustomWords, 2006) and The Women at The Well (Portals Press, 1997) as well as three chapbooks of poems: Where You've Seen Her(Pennywhistle Press), The House Where I've Never Lived(Anabiosis Press), and Field Guide to the Ineffable: Poems On Marcel Duchamp (Snail's Pace Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Arts & Letters, Colorado Review, Doubletake, Margie, Poetry, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, and others. She has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, Individual Artists Grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council, and Fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is co-editor (with Julie Kane) ofUmpteen Ways Of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press). She has taught at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln since 1994, where she serves as Coordinator of Creative Writing and as a senior book prize reader for Prairie Schooner.
Laura Madeline Wiseman has a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. She is the author of several chapbooks, including the recent collections She Who Loves Her Father (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), Branding Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Ghost Girl (Pudding House Publications, 2010), and My Imaginary (Dancing Girl Press, 2010). She is also the editor of the anthology Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence forthcoming from Blue Light Press in 2013.
Her poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in Margie, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Arts & Letters, Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, Thirteenth Moon, American Short Fiction, Cream City Review, and elsewhere.
She has received an Academy of American Poets Award, a Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Award, a Will P. Jupiter Award, a Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship, a Louise Van Sickle Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and grants from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Focus for the Arts, and the Center for the Great Plains Studies.
There is an open mic following the feature. For more information, contact Deborah McGinn at dmcginn@inebraska.com (new email)
Future readers:
Future readers:
October: Shoshana Sumrall Frerking and Marilyn Dorf
MARILYN DORF grew up near Albion, Nebraska, on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded. An only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her poetry and other writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Whole Notes, Bitterroot, Elkhorn Review, Nebraska Territory, Plainsongs, Nostalgia, Northeast, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, 100 Words, Bison Poems, Plainsong Review, and the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace and Crazy Woman Creek. She received third prize in the First Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of four chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend (1985), Windmills Walk the Night (1992),Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds (1998), and This Red Hill(Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.
Shoshana Sumrall Frerking grew up on a farm in western Nebraska, and now enjoys a career as a technical writer. Shoshana’s short fiction has been published in Deviant Minds, LAURUS Magazine, Plains Song Review,Fine Lines Journal, Paradigm, LITnIMAGE, and SNReview. A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Shoshana lives in Lincoln with her husband, Todd, oldest stepson, Drew, and their three cats, Misery, Granger, and Mac.
MARILYN DORF grew up near Albion, Nebraska, on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded. An only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her poetry and other writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Whole Notes, Bitterroot, Elkhorn Review, Nebraska Territory, Plainsongs, Nostalgia, Northeast, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, 100 Words, Bison Poems, Plainsong Review, and the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace and Crazy Woman Creek. She received third prize in the First Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of four chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend (1985), Windmills Walk the Night (1992),Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds (1998), and This Red Hill(Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.
Shoshana Sumrall Frerking grew up on a farm in western Nebraska, and now enjoys a career as a technical writer. Shoshana’s short fiction has been published in Deviant Minds, LAURUS Magazine, Plains Song Review,Fine Lines Journal, Paradigm, LITnIMAGE, and SNReview. A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Shoshana lives in Lincoln with her husband, Todd, oldest stepson, Drew, and their three cats, Misery, Granger, and Mac.
Nov: Prose read with Jen Davis Korn, Karla Decker, and Deborah McGinn
Dec.: Holiday Group Read
Jan.: Becky Faber, Charlene Neely, JK Brown and…
Feb.: Dominique Garay and ...
March:The Lincoln High School Slam Poetry Team
April: Marge Saiser
Jan.: Becky Faber, Charlene Neely, JK Brown and…
Feb.: Dominique Garay and ...
March:The Lincoln High School Slam Poetry Team
April: Marge Saiser
May: Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Violence Blue Light Press, 2013 Readers from the anthology
June: Lucy Adkins and Becky Breed bring a new book to the South Mill --
July: 14th Birthday Party for Tuesdays
Tuesdays With Writers
August 7th, at 7pm
at the South Mill
48th and Prescott, Lincoln
Deborah says: An idea showed up at a group discussion yesterday about Tuesdays With Writers August 7th. This month we are going to do something different--something inspiring and exciting.
Everyone brings one poem or short prose piece written by someone else.
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the schedule is filled for this next 12 months:
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September : Laura Madeline Wiseman and Grace Bauer
October: Shoshana Sumrall Frerking and Marilyn Dorf
Nov: Prose read with Jen Davis Korn, Karla Decker, and Deborah McGinn
Dec.: Holiday Group Read
Jan.: Becky Faber, Charlene Neely, JK Brown and…
Feb.: Dominique Garay and ...
March:The Lincoln High School Slam Poetry Team
April: Marge Saiser
Jan.: Becky Faber, Charlene Neely, JK Brown and…
Feb.: Dominique Garay and ...
March:The Lincoln High School Slam Poetry Team
April: Marge Saiser
May: Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Violence Blue Light Press, 2013 Readers from the anthology
June: Lucy Adkins and Becky Breed bring a new book to the Mill --
July: 14th Birthday Party for Tuesdays
HOT NEWS!!!!
Lincoln High in the FINALS!!!!
The
The
Louder Than a Bomb
: FRIDAY, April 20th, 7 PM!!
Omaha team Finals in the Harper Center Auditorium (Creighton campus, 20th street between Webster and California, parking information atwww.creighton.edu/harpercenter/parking/index.php).
After 2 preliminary bouts each, the top 4 teams standing who will compete here are:
Lincoln High School
Duchesne Academy
Omaha Creighton Prep
and Bellevue West.
12 great teams from area high schools each competed in 2 bouts between April 15-18 and these top 4 compete in a 5-round team poetry slam!
Special guests include poets from the other teams as well as member of the 2011 National Poetry Slam champion Denver Slam Nuba team Jovan Mays and 2012 Omaha Poetry Slam Team Finals champ Zedeka Poindexter!
Omaha team Finals in the Harper Center Auditorium (Creighton campus, 20th street between Webster and California, parking information atwww.creighton.edu/harpercenter/parking/index.php).
After 2 preliminary bouts each, the top 4 teams standing who will compete here are:
Lincoln High School
Duchesne Academy
Omaha Creighton Prep
and Bellevue West.
12 great teams from area high schools each competed in 2 bouts between April 15-18 and these top 4 compete in a 5-round team poetry slam!
Special guests include poets from the other teams as well as member of the 2011 National Poetry Slam champion Denver Slam Nuba team Jovan Mays and 2012 Omaha Poetry Slam Team Finals champ Zedeka Poindexter!
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Tuesdays with Writers
the May gathering at
the South Mill
48th and Prescott, Lincoln
May 1st, 2012, at 7pm
Tuesdays presents:
... Jen Davis Korn, Deborah McGinn, Karla Decker and Becky Faber
Jen Davis-Korn
Jennifer was first set free to write whatever she wanted by her third grade teacher Mrs. Kruse. Ever since then, she's been lucky enough to land a string of great teachers, like Deborah McGinn, and mentors, like Rex Walton, to encourage and coax her writing whims into their present fiction state. She is fortunate to have earned the trust of the good people of Tuesdays With Writers where she has made a nice and comfortable writing home. Now she promises to bring you danger, excitement, and thrills with a sampling from her collection of chapters from a long work titled "Parks and Recreation."
Poet DEBORAH T MCGINN has been published in The Iowa Review, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, The Poets Voice, Plains Song Review, Poetic Voices, Free Focus Nebraska English Journal, New York City, Fine Lines, Whole Notes, Celebrate, Lincoln Review, Richmond Award in Poetry, The South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Self Unbound, To Go From Privacy.
Becky Faber has been writing since the 20th Century. Her poems have appeared in Small Brushes (forthcoming), So to Speak, The Blue Collar Review, The Plains Songs Review, Plainsongs, the Nebraska English Counselor, and the anthologies Nebraska Voices and Lyrical Iowa. In 1987 she won first place in the Poetry division of the Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest, and in 2003 placed second in the same division. She placed second in the 2003 Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest in the Short Story category and went on to win second in national competition. She earned a PhD in English from UNL.
Karla Decker was born in Greeley, Colorado a million years ago. She has no memory of living in Omaha for about six months before the age of two though her picture appeared in the Omaha World Herald feeding a lollipop to her grandfather’s German Shepard. By age two she made her home in Wisconsin. She became enamored of Abstract Expressionism and majored in art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There she became enamored of the young writers on campus and married one of them and moved to Minneapolis and then back to Omaha. She divorced the writer and moved to Lincoln. Three gorgeous daughters and a passion for writing came out of this marriage. Her publishing history is skimpy. At Marilyn Dorf’s urging she entered the Bess Streeter Aldrich contest last year and won 2nd place. She was July in the first issue of the Nebraska Poets calendar. That’s about it.
Deborah McGinn has been the Creative Writng teacher for Lincoln High for 20+ years, and organized the FIRST Lincoln High student SLAM Team this year!! She published a Chapbook in 2002, titled "To Go From Privacy". Deborah has been published in numerous magazines, among them, the South Dakota Review, the Iowa Review, Fine Lines, and Plains Song Review. She organized and has hosted the Tuesdays with Writers series for 12 years.
open mike to follow -- email Deborah at dmcginn@lps.org for more info
Tuesdays With Writers
April gathering
April 3rd, 7pm
at the South Mill
48th and Prescott, Lincoln
: tonight, Tuesdays presents
Marge Saiser, Lucy Adkins, and Pam Barger
MARJORIE SAISER is a poet living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received an MA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, winning the Vreelands Award and the Academy of American Poets competition. Her work has been published in literary journals including Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Zone 3, CrazyHorse, and Cream City Review. Her poems have been finalists for the Robert Penn Warren Prize, the New Letters Literary Awards, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a 2000 recipient of the Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council and in 1999 received the Literary Heritage Award from the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. Saiser is a speaker for the Nebraska Humanities Council. Her first full-length collection, Bones of a Very Fine Hand, won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her second book, Lost in Seward County, was published in 2001 by Backwaters Press, 3502 N 52nd St, Omaha, NE 68104, and is available there or from Lee Booksellers 888-665-0999. She is co-editor ofTimes of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press, 2002), an anthology of poetry and prose by women of the Great Plains, which was named Poetry Honor Book in 2003 by the Nebraska Center for the Book, and also co-editor of a book of interviews, Road Trip: Conversations with Writers(Backwaters Press, 2003). Her most recent collection isBeside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press, 2010)
LUCY ADKINS grew up on a farm in Nance County, Nebraska, attended country schools, the University of Nebraska, and received her bachelors degree at Auburn University in Alabama. Her poetry has been published in journals which include Owen Wister Review, Nebraska Territory, Plainsongs, Potpourri, Northeast, South Dakota Review, and the anthologies Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace (The Backwaters Press, 2002), The Poets Against the War, edited by Sam Hamill (2003), and Crazy Woman Creek. Lucy lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she works at an insurance company and besides writing, spends a great deal of time on hands and knees in her garden.
A Lincolnite, Pam Barger holds a degree in music from UNL. She is a poet, a piano teacher, and a musician. Her work has appeared in Platte Valley Review, Nebraska Territory, West Branch, Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal and other publications as well. She is working on several projects; the first is a book for middle and high school music students called (at least for now) You Can Have Music AND a Life and the second is the revision of a poetry manuscript entitled This Deliberate Theft of Silence. Because she really enjoys both writing and music, Pam finds that music is a recurring theme in her writing. She also has published a book of poetry, "The Pinball God Let Fly"
open mike follows ------------------------ email Deborah at dmcginn@lps.org for more info
Tuesdays with Writers
at the South Mill, 48th and Prescott, Lincoln:
February 7th at 7pm:
Deola A. Thompson, and the WRITE STUFF writing group
The "Write
Stuff" writing group is a generational writing group meeting once a month in
Lincoln -- members of the group reading tonite include:
Eileen Durgin-Clinchard, Amy Plettner, Lucy Adkins, Carole Barnes-Montgomery, Nancy Savery, Ardiss Cederholm, Suzanne Yelkin, Linda Stringham, Deb Walz, Anna Jamrog, Rex Walton, Cathy Maasdam, Marge Saiser, and Marilyn Dorf
Eileen Durgin-Clinchard, Amy Plettner, Lucy Adkins, Carole Barnes-Montgomery, Nancy Savery, Ardiss Cederholm, Suzanne Yelkin, Linda Stringham, Deb Walz, Anna Jamrog, Rex Walton, Cathy Maasdam, Marge Saiser, and Marilyn Dorf
Deola Morrell-Thompson is a PH.D. student, formerly completing her Bachelor of Science in Speech/Theatre, Bachelor of Arts in English, and Master of Arts in English w/ a Creative Writing Emphasis at the University of NE at Kearney. She has written a collection of poetic works entitled The Beggar’s Wheel, which includes formal poetry exploring the structures of the sestina, villanelle, pantoum, and sonnet. Her work, Burial Societies, a response sestina to Washington Irving’s English Sketches, is published in The Reynolds Review. Her current interest is 19 c. Literature Studies, with a focus on American writers. She plans to complete her Historical Fiction piece based on Stephen Crane’s visit to NE incorporating research of the families, towns, and experiences he encountered here in the late 1800’s.
APRIL - Marge Saiser, Lucy Adkins, and Pam Barger
MARJORIE SAISER is a poet living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received an MA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, winning the Vreelands Award and the Academy of American Poets competition. Her work has been published in literary journals including Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Zone 3, CrazyHorse, and Cream City Review. Her poems have been finalists for the Robert Penn Warren Prize, the New Letters Literary Awards, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a 2000 recipient of the Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council and in 1999 received the Literary Heritage Award from the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. Saiser is a speaker for the Nebraska Humanities Council. Her first full-length collection, Bones of a Very Fine Hand, won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her second book, Lost in Seward County, was published in 2001 by Backwaters Press, 3502 N 52nd St, Omaha, NE 68104, and is available there or from Lee Booksellers 888-665-0999. She is co-editor ofTimes of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press, 2002), an anthology of poetry and prose by women of the Great Plains, which was named Poetry Honor Book in 2003 by the Nebraska Center for the Book, and also co-editor of a book of interviews, Road Trip: Conversations with Writers(Backwaters Press, 2003). Her most recent collection isBeside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press, 2010)
MARJORIE SAISER is a poet living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received an MA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, winning the Vreelands Award and the Academy of American Poets competition. Her work has been published in literary journals including Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Zone 3, CrazyHorse, and Cream City Review. Her poems have been finalists for the Robert Penn Warren Prize, the New Letters Literary Awards, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a 2000 recipient of the Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council and in 1999 received the Literary Heritage Award from the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. Saiser is a speaker for the Nebraska Humanities Council. Her first full-length collection, Bones of a Very Fine Hand, won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her second book, Lost in Seward County, was published in 2001 by Backwaters Press, 3502 N 52nd St, Omaha, NE 68104, and is available there or from Lee Booksellers 888-665-0999. She is co-editor ofTimes of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press, 2002), an anthology of poetry and prose by women of the Great Plains, which was named Poetry Honor Book in 2003 by the Nebraska Center for the Book, and also co-editor of a book of interviews, Road Trip: Conversations with Writers(Backwaters Press, 2003). Her most recent collection isBeside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press, 2010)
LUCY ADKINS grew up on a farm in Nance County, Nebraska, attended country schools, the University of Nebraska, and received her bachelors degree at Auburn University in Alabama. Her poetry has been published in journals which include Owen Wister Review, Nebraska Territory, Plainsongs, Potpourri, Northeast, South Dakota Review, and the anthologies Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace (The Backwaters Press, 2002), The Poets Against the War, edited by Sam Hamill (2003), and Crazy Woman Creek. Lucy lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she works at an insurance company and besides writing, spends a great deal of time on hands and knees in her garden.
A Lincolnite, Pam Barger holds a degree in music from UNL. She is
a poet, a piano teacher, and a musician. Her work has appeared
in Platte Valley Review, Nebraska Territory, West Branch, Weber
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal and other publications as well. She is working on several projects; the first is a
book for middle and high school music students called (at least
for now) You Can Have Music AND a Life and the second is the
revision of a poetry manuscript entitled This Deliberate Theft of
Silence. Because she really enjoys both writing and music, Pam
finds that music is a recurring theme in her writing. She also has published a book of poetry, "The Pinball God Let Fly"
May ... Jen Davis Korn, Deborah McGinn, Karla Decker and Becky Faber
Jen Davis-Korn
Jennifer was first set free to write whatever she wanted by her third grade teacher Mrs. Kruse. Ever since then, she's been lucky enough to land a string of great teachers, like Deborah McGinn, and mentors, like Rex Walton, to encourage and coax her writing whims into their present fiction state. She is fortunate to have earned the trust of the good people of Tuesdays With Writers where she has made a nice and comfortable writing home. Now she promises to bring you danger, excitement, and thrills with a sampling from her collection of chapters from a long work titled "Parks and Recreation."
Poet DEBORAH T MCGINN has been published in The Iowa Review, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, The Poets Voice, Plains Song Review, Poetic Voices, Free Focus Nebraska English Journal, New York City, Fine Lines, Whole Notes, Celebrate, Lincoln Review, Richmond Award in Poetry, The South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Self Unbound, To Go From Privacy.
Poet DEBORAH T MCGINN has been published in The Iowa Review, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, The Poets Voice, Plains Song Review, Poetic Voices, Free Focus Nebraska English Journal, New York City, Fine Lines, Whole Notes, Celebrate, Lincoln Review, Richmond Award in Poetry, The South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Self Unbound, To Go From Privacy.
Becky Faber has been writing since the 20th Century. Her poems have appeared in Small Brushes (forthcoming), So to Speak, The Blue Collar Review, The Plains Songs Review, Plainsongs, the Nebraska English Counselor, and the anthologies Nebraska Voices and Lyrical Iowa. In 1987 she won first place in the Poetry division of the Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest, and in 2003 placed second in the same division. She placed second in the 2003 Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest in the Short Story category and went on to win second in national competition. She earned a PhD in English from UNL.
Karla Decker was born in Greeley , Colorado Omaha Wisconsin Minneapolis and then back to Omaha Lincoln
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